Hello.
There's something strange here... This is my 5th image that has been rejected due to "Similar Images Already Submitted", the garden shovel depiction above.
I looked in my Adobe Stock submissions folder, I don't have a single old work related to a garden shovel.
I didn't stop with searching for "shovel", I also searched for "spade", "oar", "hawk", "rowing", etc. and still couldn't find a single work.
As I said, it's obvious to me that there's something strange here. If it continues like this, my account will be closed/suspended, and I certainly don't want something like this to happen unjustly.
What can I do to solve this, who can I contact, how can I object?
There are Adobe employees on this forum, they write from time to time, can they help me too, please?
I opened a second thread about the same issue, maybe it was wrong, but as I said, the issue is important to me, there is a risk of my account being closed even though I follow the rules to the letter and I expect an urgent response, so I opened a new thread to make it more visible.
Thank you.
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The asset below was among those I've recently had rejected for being "too similar" to other submissions. It was created using Midjourney.
I then took the above image and used it as a reference model in Firefly to produce the following.
Finally, I edited the asset and submitted this. It was accepted within 24 hours. Why was the first one too similar, but this one not? I do concentrate largely on photorealistic portraits, so I like to switch it up sometimes and mix in some abstract or surreal submissions, along with more "mundane examples such as animals, office workers, etc., which are also being rejected as being too similar.
If anything, I would think the image below is more "similar" to my usual submissions from a photorealistic perspective than my initial submission.
It appears some extremely subjective decisions are being made here, or some sweeping policy changes that Adobe has yet to inform us about. Meanwhile, there are still contributors uploading hundreds of assets so similar that they are close to being exact duplicates, which some in fact are.
I just received the above response from Adobe regarding my objection yesterday.
If I am not mistaken, the images that were rejected due to "Similar Content Has Already Been Submitted" do not only include my own submissions, but also the entire Adobe Stock archive. (Please correct me if I am wrong).
I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing I can do in such a case. In other words, no matter what subject I produce in the giant Adobe Stock, which already has hundreds of millions of images in its archive, there are already thousands - maybe tens of thousands - of images that have already been produced and submitted on that subject.
Logically, there will be similar ones to what I have done among these thousands - tens of thousands.
I guess that is the end of my Adobe Stock dream - I think my account will also be closed soon. However, this was a perfect job for me to do when I was about to retire: Work when you want, don't work when you want, you don't have any contact with the customer during sales - so you don't have to deal with the endless questions and requests of the customers, or I don't know, even when you sleep your shop continues to work and sell, you work alone - you don't have to deal with staffing problems, etc...
I haven't found a job this good and I don't think I will ever find one.
In short, I'm sad.
Your answer is stock text. Nobody looked into the case.
If I am not mistaken, the images that were rejected due to "Similar Content Has Already Been Submitted" do not only include my own submissions, but also the entire Adobe Stock archive. (Please correct me if I am wrong).
By @coffeeman_L
Correct, but that is used for abundantly preset assets, like flowers, sunrises/sunsets etc. It's not used (normally), when you provide the thousands image of a girl playing football.
Interestingly, I just noticed that the "Similar Images Already Submitted" rejection reason is as follows: (Translated from Turkish to English with Google Translate)
"Similar Images Already Submitted
Thank you for giving us the opportunity to evaluate your image. Unfortunately, during our review, we determined that it is similar to other images you have previously uploaded, so we cannot accept it in our collection.
Images must be different in a way that adds value to our customers. We cannot accept more than three color variations of the same image or similar images. Also, models must be in different situations or with different expressions. Please be selective and submit only the best of each series of images......"
So, if I'm not mistaken, it says that the archive to be used as a basis for similarity here is the ones I uploaded.
However, the notification I received by email yesterday said that the similarity covers the entire Adobe Stock archive (or so I understood).
Complete confusion.
By @coffeeman_LI expect an urgent response, so I opened a new thread to make it more visible.
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Stock receives thousands of submissions & inquiries per week. Too many to handle right away. Don't expect the impossible. It's not going to happen due to the heavy volume they receive.
I've said this before, I think Stock might be testing a new pre-evaluation tool that looks for similar images. Whether it works as intended, or not, is another issue.
Just ride this storm out like everyone else is. There's no sense in getting worked up about the review process. It's out of our control. And it has no impact on account termination. So stop worrying.
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